what should i write about? i am not much of a ballad person but i must pass in this poem on tuesday
2006-12-31 07:42:49 · 8 answers · asked by Igobeg O 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Girl is born,
Boy is born on other side of town,
Girl meets boy,
Girl and boy fall in love,
Boy cheats on girl,
Girl finds out,
Girl wants to get revenge,
Girl boy cheated with dies,
Boy that cheated gets aids,
Girl finds revenge is a wasted emotion.
Or something like that...
2006-12-31 10:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by The ReDesign Diva 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ballads are stories written in verse or song. So first decide what the story will be. Usually ballads have four line stanzas with an easy meter. Ballads often tell the story of the "bad guy" who does something good. They can be love stories or tragic stories. Write about something you know. Keep the story line relatively simple. So decide upon a plot, a couple of characters, include some dialog, and if you can think of a refrain that is repeated between stanzas. Ballads often have refrains.
If it was me I would imagine maybe a homeless person, and do his story, or I would tell the story of some adventure we have had on our sailboat.
These links may help you with ideas. Quite a few questions have been asked about ballads here on Yahoo Answers, so you may also find some help there. Best of luck with it.
2006-12-31 07:53:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ballads are usually about some aspect of falling or being in love, but there is no reason for this to be true. You could think of a ballad as an ode, and odes can be poems about nearly anything.
I think the key to a good ballad is a balance between the sincerity and the finding of an original way to convey a common thought or notion.
2006-12-31 07:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, ballads are the sort of poems that always describe sorrow, often a love sorrow. so, the best thing you can do is try and look from a perspective of an individual... let's say, a girl who survived Tsunami but lost all her family or something like that... a firefighter from NY... maybe just a man who saved someone.. anything with an ellegic tone. or you could try to just make up your own story (in ballad's, it's usually about lost love), make it modern, though, it could be a sad story about a person who fell in love with someone over the internet, they live miles apart, will probably never meet... take it from there. or, maybe, a musician whose girlfriend leaves him for a top-rank manager and his conventioanl life... tehre are plenty of ideas... just look at it form a person's perspective, and you'll be able to write a fine ballad
2016-03-29 02:13:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like to do alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the typical abab rhyme scheme. the ballad used to be of a more communal, social nature, but the place of the poet has changed. so most poems are more personal now. maybe an experience that is personal in nature but common to many.
2006-12-31 07:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by lb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a pen that is full of ink.
2006-12-31 07:46:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
love deep and eternal,but then one of them dies.
2006-12-31 07:58:28 · answer #7 · answered by Rich B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this site might help or give you and idea
http://www.classbrain.com/artaskcb/publish/article_26.shtml
2006-12-31 08:31:32 · answer #8 · answered by ????? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋